Forget Sonic, these are the 10 worst video game movies in history

street fighter

Let's start with one of the most infamous tribes of the pantheon. The original live-action street fighter the film has been plagued by all kinds of production problems from the beginning. Incredibly, Capcom financed most of the film and was apparently totally approved, but the cast's budget was reduced to nothing by hiring himself the "Brussels muscles", Jean-Claude Van Damme, to play Guile, as well as the famous spy Raul Julia (more recognizable in the general public than Gomez Addams The Addams family films) in the role of the villain Mr Bison. As a result, the rest of the distribution was relative unknowns on much lower wages.

Unfortunately, Raul Julia was suffering from cancer at the time (the film is her latest film released and is dedicated to her memory) and production had to revolve around her fragile state. You would never know it because of the energy of its hammering performance, and the film has a certain charm and charm that could make you wonder if it really deserves a place on the list. It's really fascinating to see Kylie Minogue as Cammy and how they interpreted the rest of these iconic fighters on a tight budget.

If nostalgia triumphed over your mind, do not worry – Round 2 cements the position of the franchise here. 2009 Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li sucks the whole camp and the color of the original turkey leaving only a lifeless envelope. Neal McDonough took on the role of Mr. Bison in this one – you may have seen it in Sonic's trailer, the general being repeatedly "dropped" by Robotnik. We love the guy, but hope he is not a bad omen.

Capcom persevered with the movies and finally came up with a winning formula with the resident Evil movies. They are barely on par with the games, but they are solid popcorn dishes and better than any other item on this list at a fairly wide margin.

If you would like to find out more behind the scenes of Street Fighter: The Movie, check out our report from last year – frankly, it's amazing that everything is going well.

Double Dragon

The year 1994 was a good year if you loved huge adaptations in video games and this version of the beat 'em up of Technōs is a real trap. Only a few years after his turn as T-1000 in the seminal blockbuster Terminator 2: the day of judgment, Robert Patrick played Koga Shuko, a crime leader seeking to unite the two halves of the Double Dragon Medallion. With a half in his possession, it's up to Billy and Jimmy to protect the other half and fight the punks in a story that finally puts them in a blue and red outfit respectively.

Alyssa Milano also played a leading role in this effort, but the film seems to have been filmed ten years earlier. It's terribly horrible. One could say that it is for children, but why should children endure this garbage? No, no, Bimmy deserves better than that.

Alone in the dark

In 2005, Infogrames' horror survival classic took 13 years to reach the big screen, though watching it and you wish it had taken two millennia more. The genre of horror is a favorite for video game adaptations, probably because of the reduced budgets operated by horror productions.

Supposedly a sequel to the game, it stars Christian Slater, Tara Reid and Stephen Dorff. This is especially the first appearance on this list for Uwe Boll. Mr. Boll has spent his entire career as a director of video game adaptations and this list could easily have presented his work exclusively; we have limited it to two entries only, for reasons of variety.

We are talking about one of the worst films ever made, Alone in the dark bagged two golden raspberries and three Stinker awards. Inexplicably, he had a sequel in 2008 (many of Boll's movies do it) with, among others, Lance Henriksen. The sequel was slightly better received, but probably because viewers had an idea of ​​the horrors that awaited them and reduced their expectations accordingly.

DOA: dead or alive

Another fighter, Hollywood seems to think that the action inherent in fighting games will result quickly and easily on a big screen with minimal effort. Who needs expensive and superfluous details, like a script or actors able to say things like a human being? It does not hurt either if your casting is superb in (and out) bikinis.

Released in 2006, DOA: dead or alive is braindead in all the usual ways, but you can at least see some of the money spent on the screen in terms of photography and exotic locations (the insular insular setting offers the opportunity to play volleyball from classic beach of the DOA). As a film, it's quite unsatisfactory and probably the most remarkable because of the careful choreography required to cover Holly Valance's modesty as she struggles topless using only a towel. We are fans since his days Neighbors; poor Flick deserved better than that.

house of death

Back already, Mr. Boll? Our second (and luckily final) Uwe Boll's entry artwork takes Sega's classic zombie light gun game and surgically removes all pleasure, tension and pleasure. It's a movie B where the "B" means "excruciating bloody". Let's hope Sega knows how to pick them better these days …

This is the first time that Boll has participated in a video game franchise film and continues to tour several other series, including BloodRayne, Postal and the Dungeon Siege games in the form of In the name of the king. The latter, in particular, contains real stars with names such as Jason Statham, John Rhys-Davies, Ray Liotta and Ron Perlman. It's still an absolute toilet.

Need of speed

We love Aaron Paul. He looks like a good guy and his turn as Jesse Pinkman into breaking Bad was one of the highlights of a performance-rich show. Unfortunately, he chose badly when he enrolled. As you know, EA Need of speed The series is famous for its very nuanced and captivating storytelling that captivates the player while he … hangs.

In one of the most faithful adaptations of the list, the 2014 film version of Need of speed reproduces very accurately the overall quality of the fair market value of 2005 Need speed: the most sought after. Now, it was a hell of a game! The film tries to go beyond Fast furious franchise, but quickly punctures and takes himself too seriously. To avoid.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Paramount Pictures, the studio behind the upcoming Sonic movie, has a great deal of video game adaptations. You will probably remember this attempt made in 2001 to force Angelina Jolie to put herself in the shoes of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Where to start Pretty makes a good impression on Austin Powers, but his British accent is perhaps the most solid thing in the film. Forgotten villains, frightful dialogues and action scenes try to capture some of the balletic magic of The matrix; it fails in almost every respect. In 2019, British viewers have a lot of fun seeing unlikely stars on the big screen (including Leslie Phillips and Chris Barrie, plus Bond's former Craig Craig), but that's barely enough to support you for 100 years. minutes. .

Two years later, the box office has done quite well, but it has killed the franchise until the restart of 2018, which is still not fantastic, even if it's a chef-de compared to that.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

Mortal Kombat's first film dating back to 1995 is a stupid and pulpy fun that has succeeded where Street Fighter's adaptation has failed. No, it's not a classic, but in the pantheon of video game movies, it's a fun and ridiculous interpretation of the Midway series, a fighting franchise that has never been taken seriously.

This second set of fantastic punches, however, is an excretable mess. With a dodgy game, a dull camera work and special effects that look like we the overthrown is irreparably horrible and we can not even enjoy it when we are overwhelmed by a double irony. Watch the first one instead or play the game.

Max Payne

Marky Mark Wahlberg is the incumbent Max Payne with the support of Mila Kunis, Ludacris and, of course, * audit notes * … Nelly Furtado?

You may think that Remedy's brilliant sniper shooter gameplay will result in Perfectly in the middle of the cinema. This is probably the most successful element of the film because its history, performances and general direction have been critically criticized, while Max's dark, dark journey has been transformed into a terrifying perseverance. His dull. It worked well at the box office, although that is obviously not enough to justify a sequel.

… and finally, Super Mario Bros.

Of course. Here it is – the extent to which all other terrible video game movies are judged. If you have never complied with the laws of 1993 Super Mario Bros.Take the time to watch the trailer above to see how incredibly incongruous it is with the Mario we know and love.

It will give you an idea, of course, but the trailer does not do justice to such a strange interpretation of the mushroom kingdom and the Mario brothers. As with many movies from this list, you can watch the talent of the list of actors and assume that it must reach a minimum bar in terms of quality. Bob Hoskins! Dennis Hopper! These are seasoned, professional, interesting actors – they must have brought something to the film, in addition to a willingness to pay the architects on their second homes.

The writers apparently hoped to capture something of Ghostbusters' dark comedy; It's a mystery, even if in the modern era of Mario "besieged by Disney" sanitized, it's easy to forget how strange the Kingdom of the Mushroom was at first. We have internalized his pipes and strange creatures resembling mushrooms, dinosaurs and various props, but if you wanted to write a Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood movie in the early '90s, Ghostbusters might seem like a sideline.

It's terrible, of course, but as fans, it's also fascinating to watch and see how they ended up. almost everything false.